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Children can?t think if they don?t learn facts - Telegraph

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Children can?t think if they don?t learn facts - Telegraph:  "When future generations come to study the causes of Britain?s global decline, Exhibit A will be a letter in yesterday?s Daily Telegraph, signed by 100 academics from across the country. In it, the various professors attacked Michael Gove?s proposed national curriculum for consisting of ?endless lists of spellings, facts and rules?. My God, the madness! Sometimes the Education Secretary must wake up in the morning and wonder whether it?s all worth the struggle. His opponents are of such a deep strain of perverse idiocy that it is impossible to argue with them ? ideology has defeated reason.". . . How can you have a worthwhile thought about governments and constitutions if you don?t know your kings, queens and prime ministers? How can you think up a new mathematics theorem if you?ve never learnt your 12-times table? If you don?t know anything, you end up like the poor fool in Philip Larkin?s poem ?Ignorance?: ?Strange to know nothing, never to be sure?/?Of what is true or right or real,?/?But forced to qualify 'or so I feel?,?/?Or 'Well, it does seem so:?/?Someone must know...continue to full post

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